diff --git a/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.hash b/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.hash
index 6a78f0f617..269986fadd 100644
--- a/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.hash
+++ b/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/falcon/json
-md5  f6ed9db875cb6ea8d26791b5345cb0a6  falcon-4.3.1.tar.gz
-sha256  b5081be62f1e2d4f5140f4bad6993fd2bf8b1e503ee7261f56d324b87e41a67a  falcon-4.3.1.tar.gz
+md5  0c8029e7de3eb3a158770283c0bebd2d  falcon-4.4.0.tar.gz
+sha256  9f3ffbddc8baed4573295642eddb18a37eea37baba9f20c5be379c8b3d3d79e6  falcon-4.4.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
 sha256  cfc7749b96f63bd31c3c42b5c471bf756814053e847c10f3eb003417bc523d30  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.mk b/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.mk
index 44ba1c7bc4..4e6bbf8812 100644
--- a/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.mk
+++ b/package/python-falcon/python-falcon.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_FALCON_VERSION = 4.3.1
+PYTHON_FALCON_VERSION = 4.4.0
 PYTHON_FALCON_SOURCE = falcon-$(PYTHON_FALCON_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_FALCON_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a0/02/a51af369a4feded77801d744f2d4669c7fa0a294bc117acf6ee06439937b
+PYTHON_FALCON_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a4/c7/a0584e932cdb42ab6e5dc3baab16352471dda1ba2215311c65d79ea3c0de
 PYTHON_FALCON_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_FALCON_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 PYTHON_FALCON_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE